Facilitator Interviews

This page contains a collection of one-hour pre-recorded interviews with experts on a variety of facilitation and related topics. Each program comes complete with written notes and other bonuses. Click on the title to view details for each program below. All of these interviews are Free to Members.

The 5 P’s of Guided ImageryLearn this multifaceted and powerful tool that you can use not only with your clients, but with yourself. Featuring Ellen Britt, Ed.D., speaker, trainer, and co-founder of Primal Waters.

The Art of Improv in FacilitationLearn to use humor and improvisational theater techniques as facilitation tools. Featuring Izzy Gesell, speaker, author, trainer and expert in Improv Theater Techniques.

The Business of FacilitationKeys to marketing and pricing facilitation services and outcomes while living a balanced life. Featuring Bev Lutz and Cheryl Kartes, Facilitators, Trainers, and Consultants.

Influencing Change in Groups and Individuals
Discover how change is in your best interest. Learn ideas that will help both you and those you work with to become more flexible and open to change. Featuring Kevin Eikenberry, facilitator, trainer, author, and speaker.

Facilitating EgosHow to get the “know it alls” onboard. If you’ve worked with groups for very long, you’ve run into the participant who knows it all and just can’t follow anyone else’s lead. There are effective ways to work with big egos without spoiling the party. Listen to this one-hour interview featuring Dr. Eileen Dowse, Certified Master Facilitator, Speaker, Founder of Human Dynamics.

Staying healthy in sick organizationsMany organizations, like many people many people, are tired, sluggish, have compromised immune systems, and are not as productive as they could be. Listen to this one-hour interview featuring Kathleen A Paris, PhD, where we discuss her new book and advice about what you can do to stay well in sick organizations.

Building Consensus: The Art of Getting to YES
In this interview, Michael Wilkenson walks us through a simple set of elegant tools that every facilitator should know and use. Listen to this one-hour interview featuring Michael Wilkinson, Certified Master Facilitator and author of The Secrets of Facilitation and The Secrets to Masterful Meetings.

Collaborative Intelligence: Practical ways for developing CI within groups
IQ and EQ (Emotional Intelligence) are necessary but not sufficient to deal with the society and business world in which we live. Increasingly CQ determines who ‘thrives and who dives. Listen to this one-hour interview with Stephen James Joyce, Author of Teaching an Anthill to Fetch: Developing Collaborative Intelligence at Work

The Elusive Obvious:Mastering the Non-Verbals of Communication
Research shows that 80 % of communication is non-verbal. But few people are trained in effective non-verbal skills. To fill this gap, Michael Grinder has drawn on his 40 years of research to organize non-verbals into 21 patterns. Listen to this one-hour interview with Michael Grinder, expert in non-verbal communication and author of The Elusive Obvious.

Managing at the Speed of ChangeDaryl Conner is an internationally-recognized expert in the field of change management and a well-known advisor to corporate leaders engaged in executing strategic initiatives. Listen to this one-hour interview with Mr. Conner, Chairman, Conner Partners and Author of Managing at the Speed of Change.

Transforming Disorders into Well Being by Reconnecting with Nature
Dr. Michael J. Cohen, environmental educator and psychologist, through decades living and learning in natural areas, became aware that our socialization in industrial society prejudices our mind, conditioning us to know nature and ourselves through abstract stories that separate our thinking from the beauty and balanced ways of nature. This separation biased way of thinking makes us believe that we alone are intelligent and it is the very root of our societal dysfunctional ways of being